An absolutely sensational field of stars take to the Caulfield track on Blue Diamond Stakes Day this Saturday for the 2021 Futurity Stakes, betting for which is led by multiple Group 1 winner at the track and distance Behemoth.

Behemoth is favourite in a star-studded 2021 Futurity Stakes field at Caulfield this weekend. Photo: Jenny Barnes.

In what is shaping-up as one of the best editions of the weight-for-age event in recent history, Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Futurity Stakes (1400m) field features 10 runners including a host of proven elite level performers.

The standout of those is the David Jolly-trained All Too Hard five-year-old from Goolwa who completed the Group 1 Memsie Stakes – Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes double over the 1400m at Caulfield last campaign.

He did that off a lead-up win at home at Morphettville and comes via the same form line this autumn having saluted fresh in Adelaide on January 30 by three lengths in a Listed 1100m sprint.

Second-up and fitter for the run, the gun gelding will relish the step-up to 1400m and sits top of the latest Futurity Stakes odds at $3.20 through Ladbrokes.com.au after drawing gate two.

The danger occupying the second line of Futurity Stakes betting at a close $3.60 is another fit runner coming off a lead-up win in Jamie Richards’ New Zealand-trained mare Probabeel.

Jumping wider from barrier nine with Damian Lane in the saddle, the talented Savabeel four-year-old carried 60kg to victory with the same hoop aboard on February 6 in the Group 3 Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

She comes back to 57kg for the Futurity with a run at the track under her belt, and is another with a gun 1400m record (5:3-1-0) and a spring Group 1 success on the record with her win in Randwick’s Epsom Handicap (1600m) last October.

The early Futurity Stakes market mover into $6 to salute fresh is another star mare in the Grant & Alana Williams-trained Arcadia Queen.

She jumps one on the inside of Probabeel with brilliant Perth hoop William Pike aboard, the Pierro five-year-old having her first start since taking out Flemington’s Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Arcadia Queen is definitely a genuine 2000m mare having also won the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes here over that distance in the spring, but she looked strong in a recent trial at home and is an excellent first-up performer with claims.

The last of the single-figure hopefuls in the Futurity this season at $7 is the youngster in the mix, the rails-drawn Ole Kirk for Hawkes Racing.

The three-year-old Written Tycoon colt won Sydney’s Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) as well as the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) in Melbourne in the spring and presents second-up and ready to fire on the weekend.

First-up at the start of the month at Randwick he was under a length beaten for third in the $1 million Inglis Sprint (1200m) and he presents as a livewire chance south of the border at WFA.

The other horse of note chasing a hat-trick of wins is the reigning Futurity Stakes champion Streets Of Avalon at $11 to go back-to-back in the race for the first time since Niconero (2008-09).

Shane Nichols’ smart Magnus six-year-old has his 55^th career start on Saturday and comes off a sensational start to the year having won the Group 2 Australia Stakes (1200m) first-up at The Valley and then the Group 1 C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Click here for the latest 2021 Futurity Stakes betting odds courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au.

2021 Futurity Stakes Field & Barriers

Table Credit: Racing Australia.